I suppose I mistook him for the other, more notorious Lanny Davis, who-I believe-was just a few years out of college at the time.
Aside from Panetta, I think that Roger Morris, Daniel Ellsberg and a host of other liberal parasites who managed to insinuate themselves into the inner circle of the Nixon administration wrote scathing denunciations of their former employer, after leaving public service.
Of course, I wish that Panetta had stayed away.
I had a couple of food poisonings two years back which eventually led to me doing a big "Lanny Davis" in my bathroom.
Even after the flush, the smell can of course linger.
I would have lit a match, but that would have looked too much like a Wellstone political wake.
The Lanny Davis you are thinking of is one and the same. He was a snot nosed punk in 1974, and got Harold Hughes to write the forward to his book. It's a boring thing that uses the phrase, "new politics" a couple thousand times.
It's the same Lanny Davis we all love so much.
I read Thompson in the 70's. In my opinion Hells Angels was his best work, some short pieces good too.
Saw him interviewed by Charlie Snow about a year ago, and he was barely coherent.
Sorry to dismiss him as another drug case, but he did it to himself, didn't he?